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MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due Arrived. 0 America.......... 0 2 France ............ 0 0 Lisbon I Brasil ..... ....... . 0 1 Guern. k Jersey 0 0 Malta , U Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... I 0 Mexico 0 Cartriagena....... 0 0 Hoi , ,ind . 1 0 Ostend 2 Dub1in..........• 0 0 Jamaica ...... .... 0 n Sweden 2 Flanders ......... 0 0 Leeward Islands U 2 Waterford , HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, Morning ...... ... 39 minutes after 10 I Evening l2 minutes after 11 THE COURT AND TIMES OF QUEEN ANNE. In a few days, Second Edition, in 2 vols. Bvo. with P or t ra i ts. T HE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. ILLUSTRATIVE of the COURT and TIMES of QUEEN ANNE. (NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS; ) WITH HER SKETCHES and OPINIONS of HER CONTEMPORARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo. OUTWARD BOUND; Or, THE YOUNG ADVENTURER; By the Author of "RATTLIN THE REEFER," "THE OLD COMMODORE," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TO COLONEL THOMPSON, FROM MR. EWART SIR, WITH feelings i n w hi c h i n di gnat i on preva il s over anger, and sorrow over indignation, I have read the fol owing passage in a letter which bears your signature in the Chro ri itle of this morning : " It was notorious, since the Raphael inquiry, that Irish Bo roughs were disposed of for a contribution to the Irish military chest. The ex-Member for Liverpool had no peculiar claims which should exempt him tom the common lot. His appointment to Kilkenny was Gazetted, but cancelled on the failure which took place in Middlesex. A natural inference from all that subsequently occurred was, that he had arranged for the succession to Kilkenny with reservation to the Candidates for Dubin and Middlesex, in the event of the failure of either : balanced by an engagement that, in such case, he should seated in thefirst Borough in the gift of the last-named high contract ing party." Sir, on such an occasion the simplest answer is the best. The whole of these suppositions (unsupported as you give them to the world by proof direct or collateral)—whence soever you derived them—are utterly unfounded. I reject, with the indignant consciousness of truth, the inference which you strangely call a natural one, but which your countrymen, I think, will call unjust. Not only have I never been a contributor in any shape or man ner to the fund which you have raised in your own imagination, but I never was even a subscriber to the Irish National Fund. The arrangement which you suppose respecting Kilkenny, and the further arrangement which you superadd, never had existence. I call on you for your proofs ; and I invite you to summon in evidence not only Mr. O'Connell and the men of Kilkenny ( who will both hear your charges with indignation), but every testimony, direct or indirect, which you can produce from any quarter of the world. One word more : You add, in your letter, " Repeated allusions had been made to the subject (of Kilkenny) during the (Maryle bone) election ; but no denial or relUtation is known to have been advanced." Sir, if your imagination had not been more actively employed than your powers of observation, you might have recollected that I publicly stated on the hustings that to the men of Kilkenny only was I indebted for my nomination there ; and I added that, if any recommendation (in case of the success of Mr. Ilume in Middle sex) proceeded from Mr. O'Connell, I believed it was not in favour of me, but of another gentleman. It is most natural, it is most just, that Mr. O'Connell's country men should consult his opinion on such a subject. Instead of being, as they are, one of the most grateful people upon earth, they would be one of she most ungrateful if they acted otherwise. But I believe that I was not the person recommended by Mr. O'Connell. I shall ever consider it as one of the most honourable events of my life that I was nominated, without my knowledge, by the inde pendent and liberal people of Kilkenny. I never, so far as I know, had previously corresponded with, spoken to, or seen, aey of the gentlemen who proposed, seconded, or supported me. They learned that I had lost Liverpool, and, believing me (I trust) an honert man, they proposed me at Kilkenny. I can readily believe that they will be indignant when they see the inferences which you have drawn from their conduct ; and I ley before the public, with more of pain than of anger, these your charges, and this, my answer to them. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Eaton-place, March 5, 1838. WM. EWART. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have not room for the second Letter of Veritas. The mistake of which he complains was caused by his own unusual method of writing, " 3d," which male our compositors and reader suppose it was " Is. and 3d.," as r er x to which we gave credit from noticing that the different Reports of the Charges of the Factors, iiiserted in our Journal on Friday and Saturday, vary between 2s. sd. and 5:3; 4 d. We are still of opinion that Air. Factor. Veritas meant to mystify the public and screen the 'actors, to which we will by no means be parties. The pvidication of TUE SCN NRW3PAPHR commenced this dot at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. e' 4 l W- - 11% 7lst ki,`Jot WITH WHICH ct THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1838. A meeting of the Tory party took place to-day at two o'clock, At Sir ROBERT PEEL'S, to decide on the course it will be ex k iedient to adopt to-morrow. A meeting also of the friends o -f Ministers took place at the Foreign-office. Whatever may he resolved on by both parties, there can, we believe, be no do:Abt that the division on Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S moron, should he continue so ill advised ' as to bring it on, will be a very close one. We must, there fore, remind all the Mewbers who represent Reform opi nions, that it is their duty to be present to-morrow evening, to oppose the Tories. Those who are nut of town must hasten back, and no Member must suffer any motive of Private interest to impede the performance of his public duties. If Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S motion went to con demn the principles of our system of Colonial administra tion, we should by inclined cordially to recommend it to support. We can conceive no system of government which in principle appears to be worse than that which administers the affairs of distant countries, making laws for them, re. igulating their trade, and controuling their intercourse with other countries, by a few official gentlemen in Downing -street. At the same time, it can scarcely be be denied, that such a system is compatible with a consider able degree of Colonial prosperity. As acted on by the In dia Company, it has, in fact, been of great advantage to India itself. ,Notwithstanding too, the just complaints which have, from time to time, been made, of misplaced pa tronage—of scan 'lalous waste of the Colonial resources— and of no trifling acts of oppression, the Colonies of Eng land have been, at least, within the last few years, better governed and more prosperous, than under such a system we have any right to expect. But, whatever may be the virtues or the faults of the system, it was not devised by the present administration, and was, in fact, loss devised by any statesman, than brought about by the nature of circum stances. The resent Ministers have had to administer that system as they found it ; they are not to blame for its existence ; nor cat we justly call upon them to alter it, whatever may be our nrivate opinion of its defects, as long as the bulk of the people both in the Colonies and at. home acquiesce in its Continuance. On principle, we conceive the system to be bad, and we would take every fitting opportunity to make our own opinions the general creed ; but as long as the Colonists and the public here acquiesce in it, we cannot rationally expect any Ministry or any Government to denude itself of the patronage and power which it bestows. If Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII, Mr. LEADER, and their friends, were to direct their efforts to the improvement of the system, they should have our cordial support ; but their object is to ivjure the Ministry, and they propose to effect that by taking advantage of the defects of the old system to , disparage The Colonial Minister. This is uoiust and un worthy. We will not, however, follow a respectable Morning Contemporary in lavishing contumelious epithets on these gentleme.n ; because that desire of distinction which the Chronicle .attacks, though sometimes diseased, is really the source of 01 that is good, great, and ennobling ; and we would rather endeavour to direct it to usefulness, by convincing these genaemen that they are likely to do injury to themselves, than to 3Jarden them in error by abuse. V - e shall endeavour briefly to prove that their proposed proceeding is contrary to their own avowed principles - . The real question is, whether Lord GI.ENELG have ,;cl - a bad system with so much discretion as to deserve the support of Reformers. Now, with the ex ception of Canada, we have no recollection of any period in our Colooial history in which the colonies have been more prosperous and contented, or in which the popular interests have been scr .much promoted, as under Lord GLENELG'S administration. Even Mr. HUME has scarcely found any thing to censure. As to Canada, the chief complaint which has been made against Lord GLENELG, both here and in the colony, is, that ;1e hiss leaned too much to the popular party. tlo found th a t c along distracted by intemperate factions. It was not his fag It that the Canadians wore divided into English and French, and that the latter were soured and ir ritated by a long continuance of insult heaped on them. He would, indeed, have been to blame if he bad not les sened the insults, but he went so far in that direction as to call forth the most intemperate hostility from the oppo nents of the French. The British part of the Canadian po pulation, as is natural, was seconded by the public here, and the manner in which Lord Joint RUSSELL'S resolu tions were supported in 1837, both in Parliament and out of Parliament, is a convincing proof that Lord GLENELG had gone as far as was possible on the Liberal side. How ever much the extreme Radicals may regret the present state of public opinion, it is palpable, by the success of the Canada Government Bill, that the coercive or British po licy, as it is called, as to Canada, is still supported by the bulk of the nation. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH and his friends lay it down as the main principle of their poli tical creed that the majority must govern the whole. But the Ministers as to Canada have had the great majority of the empire with them, and have acted strictly in accordance with the Radical principle of governing by the majority. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, however, and his friends censure them for not acting in opposition to the great majority, and in accordance with the opinions embraced by a party which is represented by about seven Members of the House of Commons, and in such a borough as Mary lebone, by 187 electors. In Sir WILLIAM and his friends this is grossly inconsistent, and they ought either to give up the great principle of governing by the majority and contend for the dominion of a narrow Oligarchy, because it adopts their opinions, or they ought to abstain from attacking Lord GLENELG. For the Radicals to censure him, because our colonial system of administration was in judiciously framed originally, while he has administered it as much as possible, in their sense is both imprudent and unjust. of August came, and the day was kept as a sacred holiday. All the churches were crowded from early dawn. Five or six times that day was each of the churches filled and emptied in succession with multitudes who came to render thanks to God for their liberation. In that island where the bounty of nature seemed to provoke the appetite to indulgence, and to scatter with a profuse hand all the means of excitement, not one negro was, on that Ist day of August, found in a state of intoxi cation." It might be supposed that such a display of Christian meekness, and forgiveness of injuries on the part of eman cipated negroes, would have touched with compassion the hearts of their cruel task -masters. It might naturally be concluded that upon finding that they sustained no pecu niary disadvantage from the emancipatio❑ of the slaves, independently of the compensation fund, which thus became so much clear gain, the planters would have taken pains to conciliate the affections of a race over whom they could not long hope to exercise even a limited uncontrouled authority. But no. The system of terror—of cruelty and bloodshed—is still rife in the Colonies ; and atrocities are committed, as monstrous as any that ever disgraced those Colonies when slavery was the law, not only of England, but of the whole world. Take an instance cited by Lord BaouGuAm : " I have, within the last two hours, amid the new mass ofpapers laid before your Lordships within the last forty-eight hours, culled a sample which, I believe, represents the whole odious mass. Eleven females had been flayed and scourged with the lash, put upon the tread-mill, and compelled to work until nature giving way, they were suspended by the arm, so that each revolution of the wheel inflicted new wounds on their members, and thus these eleven females were left, to use the most emphatic language, to die a lingering death. I would ask your Lordships the reason why these things were not stigmatised as crimes' I would ask you why they were unvi sited with punishment ? Or were they visited ? No ! The forms of justice were gone through, coroner's inquests were held— eleven inquisitions were holden, eleven juries empannelled, eleven verdicts returned. Were they murder—manslaughter —misconduct even? No. " Died by the Visitation of God." Perjury—blasphemy ! The visitation of God ! Yes, they died by the visitation of God, for all visitations of the kind, all acts of that Divine Being, by which the inscrutable pur poses of his will are worked out, are from Heaven. Yea, even that most mysterious, and inscrutable, and appalling power consigned by him for a time to the hand of the wicked —the power to torment their fellow creatures. But if there were one visitation of that Omnipotent Being more inscrutable than another it was when the heavens rained on the earth—not scorpions, nor famine, nor plague, nor war—but worse than all these put together—perverters of the law, unjust judges, perjured jurymen, who, to gratify their owe evil propensities, their own vile passions, took part with the criminal against the victim—made law a curse where it should be a blessing—and forswore themselves on God's Gospels, in order that justice might not be done the oppressed." Our readers may naturally suppose that the above, after all, is an isolated case of cruelty—that it is a case of which there is nothing in the spirit of the Colonial administration of the law to provoke the recurrence. They are mistaken : and we need only pray them to examine the following Out line of the manner in which the forms of justice are gone through in the Colonies, to be convinced that every encouragement is held out to the perpetrators of such cruelties to continue them. Lord BROUGHAM thus described the form of administering justice, or rather of perverfng both the forms and substance of equity in the Colonies, and not a whisper was heard in refutation of a syllable that fell from him : " The whites are the Judges. The puisne Judges are chosen on the spot and appointed by the planters themselves. The whites, too, are the jurors who prefer the bills against sshites for she maltreatment of blacks—the jurors who try the slaves thernselves—the magistrates, the jailors, the turn keys—in short, the whole apparatus of justice, both admistra tir•e and executive, is in the hands of one class. What is the consequence ? No b.lls are found against them. Six bills were vreferred for murder end bad manslaughter at one assizes, and every one of them was thrown out. The same thing having happened so frequently wagers were offered that all the bills would be thrown out, and no one fortunately accepted the bet, for all the bilis were ignored. The House roust be perfectly aware that, in the proceedings before the grand jury, not one tittle of evidence can be heard in favour of the prisoner. Consequently all the testimony must be against the prisoner. Even in the worst cases of murder, as certainly and plainly committed as the sun shines at noon day, monstrous to all, the bills were thrown out, when half the witnesses for the proaecution remained to be examined The whole system of punishments. too, is monstrous. Thirty nine lashes for the vague, indefinite, and incapable-of -being defined offence of insolence; 29 lashes for the more grave, and certainly more definite, crime of carrying a small knife in the pocket ; three months' imprisonment, or 30 lashes, for the equally grave offence of cutting off the shoot of a cane plant." To remedy an evil so monstrous, Lord BROUGHAM has proposed that the apprenticeship of the Negroes shall ex pire in 1838—two years earlier than the period flxed by the Emancipation Act. In answer to the objection that the Jamaica apprentices are not fit to be entrusted with their freedom, and that consequently outrages would follow were their fetters entirely removed, the Noble and Learned Lord referred to Antigua, where the system of apprentice ship was not adopted, the slaves having been set at once at full liberty. We give the passage in his Lordship's own words—carrying, as they must, conviction to every mind not under the influence of the worst prejudices : We should be perfectly at ease as to the issue were we not convinced that the Tories will take advantage of Sir WILLIAM'S imprudence to repeat on an imperial scale the Marylebone election. The Radicals played that borough into the hands of the Tories, and Sir WILLIAM wishes apparently to play the administration into their hands. That election the Times of this morning tells us was the success of the Church party, and the return of the Tories to office will be its complete triumph. Surely the Dissenters and the Radicals of Leeds and Westminster did not send Sir WILLIAM MoLEswowrll and Mr. LEADER into Parliament, to turn out their friends though they be lukewarm, and carry into office their most deadly foes ? The Church party is now rampant, proud of the many defeats it has inflicted on Ministers, who are sup ported by Dissenters and Catholics, and let it only succeed by the motion of Sir WILLIAM NIOLESWORTH, in placing its friends in administration, and all hope of the extinc tion of Church rates, must be at once at an end. Indeed, we should not he surpeised if the repeal of the Registration and Dissenters' Marriage Acts were to be amongst the first measures proposed by the Church party, after the return of the Tories to office. If the high-chu rc h and Tory party be as consistent as it is sirulent it must go further, and ask for the expulsion of the Catholics from Parliament, and the re-enactment of the Test. Act. Oa that party Sir ROBERT PEEL depends, and we doubt whether he, if placed in office by its means, would be able to resist its influence. Thus the popu lar representatives of Leeds and Westminster, by their inccnsistent and unjust attack on Lord GLENELG, run the risk of placing their Dissenting and Radical constituencies once more under the roof of high Church and Tory tyranny. If they expect that this will be a passport to greater influence and power they will be griev ously mistaken, and the first effect we believe of their suc cess will be that their dee( ived and injured constituents will call on them to accept the Chiltern Hundreds, and eon ign them to that oblivion they will well deserve. AN th e Radicals are deeply interested in preventing the suicide of these misled gentlemen ; and we trust that no one will to-morrow night be absent from his pest. In resuming our comments upon the debate in the House of Lords, on the 20th ult., on the Slave question, we have to repeat the expression of our regret, that Lord BROUGHAM —whose admirable speech on that occasion has been re printed in a separate form by the Messrs. RIDGWAY— did not make such of his resolutions as referred to the working of the Colonial Emancipation Act the subject of a distinct and separate motion. By confounding in the public mind—proverbial for the difficulty with which it can master more than a single idea at a time—the crimes of the planters with the horrible atrocities of the slave traffic kers, the Noble and Learned Lord so diminished, by the haze of an imperfectly understood contrast, the guilt of the former, as almost wholly to exonerate them from that repro bation, which would be sure to have followed a separate de tail of the evils of the apprenticeship system. We are fully aware that the Noble and Learned Lord was influenced by excellent motives in coupling questions which we think ought to have been kept separate. We know that it was not his Lordship's wish to raise a popular clamour against the planters exclusively, and that he especially de sired that the Government might have an opportunity of doing justice to the emancipated negroes, without the im putation of being swayed by external influences. But surely the Noble and Learned Lord never supposed that the Ministerial pledge which he received for the re dress of colonial grievances would be more tardily fulfilled, were the Government really in dread of a powerful pressure from without. We at least must say, that Ministerial pledges arc never so entirely redeemed to our satisfaction as when we can discern the stalwart form of the people in the back-ground in an exacting attitude ; and judging from the proceedings in the House of Lords Thursday night,on the presentation of the anti-slavery petitions, the Noble and Learned Lord already begins to feel that he trusted too much to the voluntary action of the Cabinet. But by whatever motives of delicacy Lord BROUGHAM might have been influenced, it is the duty of the Public Press to deal honesty and fearlessly with this question—and especially to expose any crimi nality on the part of colonists, whose humanity we have purchased at a price the most extravagant ever re corded in the annals of philanthropy. Having paid twenty millions of money, to obtain a mitigation of the crime of man claiming a property in the flesh of his brother, it is but just that we should exact a rigid fulfilment of the contract— that we should carefully watch over the welfare of those fellow-beings to whom we have given the hope of being soon placed on a footing of social equality with our selves—and who, under circumstances the most trying, have proved themselves so worthy of our protection. Long and bitter as was the period of their slavery—deep and in delible as must have been the recollection of their wrongs, the first dawn of liberty among the negrocs was stained by no outrage—no act of retaliatory vengeance. Who can We direct the attention of our commercial readers to read the following touching account of the conduct of the the third half-yearly Report of the Directors of the coloured race o n th e I s t o f A ugust 1834, and not feel how Southampton D oc k C ompany, which will be found in much more slavery d egra d es t h e sou l o f t h e oppressor than our columns of thi s d ay . A ny verbal comment of ours the oppressed—h ow .muc h more wort h y the negro popu- upon the details of a docu ment , d rawn up with such evid en t lati on of our West Indian col on i es were o f t h at lib erty care and ability would be superfluous ; but we cannot, there which was so long withh e ld f rom t h em, t h an the majority fore, withhold the expression of the lively interest we r of the tyrants who k e pt th em i n b on d age. W e can imagine take in the success of a project calculated to confer the inward delight w ith w hi c h L or d B ROUGHAM pro nouns the following realiz a ti on o f th e f on d est hope of a lasting benefit upon the country, and Particularly upon the Slave gmencipationists : the trade of London. Monopolists, we are aware, will "The Istsef Augest came, that day so confidently and joyously cry out about the danger to existing interests ; but we can anticipated by the peter slaves, and eo sorely dreaded by their discover no grounds for serious alarm upon that score. It hard taskmasters, and if ewer there were a picture interesting is quite possible to quadruple the trade of Southampton, to look noes-.3f sever there were a paecage in the history of a people that e0u,14 1 . redound to their hoteour—if ev er there and yet inflict no commercial injury upon Bristol, Liver were a complete refutation ,of the scandalous eeelumnies which Pool, or any other provincial harbour in the king for ages had been heaped npmethat helpless race,,as a kind of 0 dom. F or several weeks during the present w i nter flimsy justification a. the wrongs ,which t h ey h a d one them, ,all the vessels were ice-bound in the Thames, and a that picture and that passage are t© he found in the unVorm and ee ~.„_ gnatt . on of trade was the inevitable consequence. Dur tranquil history of that day over the whole of the W e st Indi a islands, Instead of the tires o f rebellion, li g ht e d b y gesense ; mg this period the Report state s that the Har bour of South of lawless revenge and res i s t ance t o oppression—the whom of ampton was free from ice—so that had the contemplated these islands were lit llp with the mild and benignant light .of Docks been built, and the Riilway finished, the freezing joy, contentment, peace, and goodwill towards all men. /V f civili s ed nation, after gaining an unexpected victory over op- over o the 'Thames would have been scarcely felt as an pression, could have shown more delicacy and forbearance t impediment lo the trade of Lond o n. It is in thi s light that than was .exhibited by the slaves at the g rea t mora l consume p,, e F 0 1 ,03 5 ,10 rega rd the exertions of the Southampton Dock oration which they had attai'eled. There was not a look or a gesture to gall the eyes —not a sound escaped from negro lips I and Railw ay il Companies in the observations which we intend tee wound the ears of she plantere. All was joy, mutual con- offering, -d with hop:: expectation. Theythe course of a day or two, upon the principle gratulation, earnest hope, and confides, i left (4.) sortt the en kingdom,ow (i whatevert to our re adds d d d e r s sio its Londonligou vigour, s , would soon be struck off, and they looked fo ' rme. telt that their fetters had been loosened, t . ''ay expected that the to the tirne when the degrading marks which they h ennibles it to force a healthier currrent to the extremities. 'lf ti l l i e ear i{ t e o l 'natural position of Southampton, sheltered as their limbs wadi be wholly crased.—Olear,) This b ' s • .rsal 5 ' ' co ies the 1 I of Wight, entitles it to be regarded as pe peaceful joy, delicate towards others as it was q * tth ' ' 't is ,„y q v 0 c themselves, was all that was to lie sacra, heard -uoiretf amongst; 4' 1. ''Y ' , anted for a great commercial depot ; and the West India islands. Amusements there were none ttotbien the cu„larly • 1 . . : th&it it did not sooner attract the notice of that day—not even those amusements by which they weteseen on.f7 won, ter is, customed to beguile the hard lot of slavery, and which i a : e . - the mere %mile world. . „ _ .. _ ..... .,.....,„.......-.......ri minded them of the country of their fcrefathers—rio, for s h y ' hbours the French are very clever negroes are an eminently pions people, and they kept as If our lugenious neig inventions, t sabbath the day of their liberation.—( Hear, hear.) The se t at inai ' d improving upon, our they are tatl , an PIL " But Antigua, what happened there—for in Antigua there was not even the indentured apprenticeship ? In An tigua and Bermuda, as would have been the case at Monserrat if the Upper House had not thrown out the Bill which had been passed by the planters themselves, there had been no preparatory step. In Antigua and Bermuda, on the Ist of August, 1894, three years and a half ago, there was nota single slave or i n d en t ure d apprent i ce. B ut i t h a d b e en said that it could hardly be expected that, after so complete and abject a state of slavery which had so long existed ; the sudden emancipation would not endanger the peace of the island. The experience of August Ist at once seared away the phan tom which had been raised in the minds of the planters. It was then said, only wait till Christmas, when all who have a practical knowledge of the negro character dread rebellion. They did wait—and I will go to Antigua, for it is the strongest case—there there was no preparatory state, there there was no transition—the chains were at once knocked off, and the negro was made free. Well, what happened? For the first time within thirty years, that year martial law was not proclaimed In Antigua." W e have not space for a longer commentary upon these interesting details. But the question shall have our best and most vigilant attention. In the meantime we are sorry to see that some our pseudo-liberal contempo raries are not ashamed to misrepresent in the grossest manner, the conduct of Lord BROUGHAM upon this ques tion, merely because his Lordship is too honest to bow the knee to certain time-serving objects of their political wor ship. They cannot comprehend principle in action apart from the gratification of individual resentment, or the tri umph of personal ambition. The fellow Anti-Slavery apostle of the great and good WILBERFORCE is charged with being influenced with revengeful feelings, in denounc ing the atrocities of the Slave trade, and the supineness of the Government that still suffers such a traffic to disgrace humanity. The idea is as monstrous as it is base and calumnious ; and we are happy to observe, has been scouted with contempt by every Tory journal of any character in the country. Grovelling must be the mind that seeks food for calumny in motives ; and distinguished must be the career of the Statesman whose motives must be canvassed, in order to find materials for an attack upon his public cha racter. Due. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1838. not less sagacious in avoiding our blunders. The French Government lately obtained the sanction of the Chamber of Deputies to a plan, the object of which is the construc tion of national railroads on a truly magnificent scale, and which cannot fail to produce results of the highest impor tance, not only to the trade and commerce of that rapidly improving country, but to the general cause of civilization. The plan to which we allude assumes the capital of France as a centre, from which issue several main trunks of rail way towards the frontiers, the principal termini being Havre on the Channel, Bourdeaux on the Western Ocean, Marsielles on the Mediterranean, Strasbourg on the Ger man, and Lisle on the Belgian frontier. Some of the sub sidiary branches, connecting the different parts of the coun try with these principal lines, are to be left to:private enter prise. The Minister of Commerce and Public Works, has lost no time in commencing this grand undertaking ; contracts for the execution of parts of the work, have al ready been tendered and accepted. The French Ministers do not sleep on their posts. A glance at the map of Europe will show how admi rably this enlightened project combines the advantages of external and internal communication. How wisely, also, is the distinction drawn between that which may be safely left to individual speculation, and;that which it is the duty of the Government to take upon itself as the guardian of the na tional interests ! The Government having no other object in view than the advancement of those interests, will lay no heavier charges on its roads than are absolutely necessary to pay a moderate interest for the money expended on them, while at the same time those obstructions which the folly or caprice of individual speculators might throw in the way of the public convenience will be effectually pre vented on the great lines of communication. It would have been a happy thing for this country if our Government had, in conformity with our often repeated warnings, anticipated that of France in making our principal railroads a national undertaking ; we ' hope, however, it is not too late to follow its ex ample. The evil consequences of the omission have already begun to develope themselves. In the late pro ceedings of the Birmingham Railway Company, we see an instance of the danger to which the interests of the com munity are exposed when their protection is delegated to private persons. This Company, having obtained from Parliament privileges so great as to enable them to monopo lize the conveyance of passengers on the great northern road, now turn round upon their creators, and say, " we will not allow our road to be used by Sunday travellers. The road is our's, and we will do as we like with our own." This is the plain English of the resolution, for which proprietors in that concern holdin g between three and four thousand shares, voted ; and the resolution actually passed, if it has any meaning, speaks nearly the same language. It con fers upon a majority of the Directors the power of putting a stop to Sunday travelling whenever they please. The stoppage may not take place immediately, but the party who are driving at this object, if they are not coerced by the high hand of the Legislature, will never rest till they have accomplished it. This we cannot doubt, knowing as we do that the perseverance of the saints in their endeavours to elongate the countenances and abridge the comforts of her MAJESTY'S subjects, is one of their most marked and mischievous characteristics. This conduct on the part of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, we consider as emi nently deserving of public reprobation. It is a com plete breach of faith with the public, and the more to be condemned because it is attempted to be cloaked under a religious garb. We ask those stick lers for the religious observance of the Sunday whe ther, if they had openly stated, on applying to Parliament for their Bill, that it was their determination to put a stop to Sunday travelling on the Railroad, they would have obtained it ? They know that they would not have had the most distant chance of succeed ing. How unworthy—how despi , :,able, then, is it now— when the Railroad is on the eve of being com pleted, for the first time to moot a point of so much importance. But let not the pious shareholders flatter them selves that they will be able to contend either against the feelings of the country or the will of the Legislature. The same power that created can annihilate them. And this must be their fate, should they ever proceed to the extremity of excluding any who are inclined to travel on Sunday, from the use of the railroad. In such a case, we hesitate not to say that it will be the duty of the Legisla ture to interfere between the proprietors and the public ; and, if no other means be found to bring the scruples of the one and the convenience of the other into harmony, to take possession of the railway on behalf of the public, giving the Shareholders of course a proper remu neration for their interest in the property. This they may per haps call an arbitrary and unjust proceeding. Were it so, they at least would have no right to complain of it. But in fact there would be nothing either arbitrary or unjust in it. It would, in sober truth, be nothing more than acting on the very same principle on which the privileges of this and other similar companies have been granted namely, the public good. This is the only ground upon which it is even pretended that such Com panies have any claim upon the Legislature. When, therefore, the privileges thus granted are abused and per verted from their professed object, the very reason for which they were given demands that they should be re claimed. With respect to the religious part of this question, it could easily be shown that the stopping up of a railway on Sundizy would really occasion a hundred times more of what these bigots call Sabbath breach than would be com mitted, were it open as on other days ; but this our space will not allow us to do at present ; nor indeed is it necessary. We shall only remark, that the Jewish law, with all its ceremonial rigour, permitted the inno cent recreation of the people on the Sabbath-day. A Sabbath-day's journey was allowed ; and though it was a short one, it involved more personal labour than does travelling on a railroad from London to Birmingham. Let us, in our endeavours to be religious, take care that we be not righteous " overmuch ;" and when we are anxious to keep the Sabbath—if we must again have the yoke of Jewish bondage fixed upon our necks—let us never forget that the Author of our religion has taught that even Jews were bound to consider that " the Sabbath was wade for man, and not man for the Sabbath." We had intended to make some remarks on the convey ance of the mails by railroads, but we have neither time nor space to say more at present, than that it ought to be a con dition imposed on every Railway Company, that they shall convey the Mails free of all expence to the public. We fear we shall have something to say to the London and Birmingham Railway Company on this subject also. Letters and papers from Madrid to the 25th ult. have been received. On the 2 . 2 d Senor IsTuarz returned to the capital, and after an animated debate in the Cortes, was permitted to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies a ono o f the national representatives. Who shall say after this that the principles of Liberal Government are understood in Spain? The men who only a few months ago conspired against the Constitution—who preferred exile to its adoption—now encircle the Constitutional throne in the q uality of Legislators ! CoßDovi declared by the national voice a traitor to liberty and his Sovereign ; TOREN°, convicted by the Report of a Committee of the Chamber of having accepted, in concert with the Regent, four millions of rials as a bribe for signing the Almaden Mines' contract ; MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, who perilled the safety of the nation for an abstract political dogma ; and IsTuarz, who would have voted for garolling Serjeant GARCIA and all who took an active part in proclaim. ing the C o nstitution—such are the men who now covertly direct the destinies of Spain. As for Count OPALIA and his colleagues, they are mere puppets in the hands of the returned exiles. TonENo manages them as he pleases, in the hope that the day is fast approaching when the national prejudices, as he calls them, will be so smoothed down as to permit his resumption of the office of President of the Council. The Chamber of Deputies is crowded with unprincipled adventurers who aim only at their own a ggrandizement, and with noisy demagogues who secretly delight in the continuance of a rebellion from whence only they derive their political import ance. These men babble of liberty, while they se cretly lend themselves to distract the Councils of those who would establish it on a firm basis. They are united by no bond of patriotic affection—they are swayed by no great principle of exalted action—they are influenced by no com mon impulse but that which centres in the sordid aggran. disement of self. Such are not the instruments with which Providence effects the deliverance of nations. The Gazette of the 22d contains a Royal decree for the levy of 40,000 recruits, whose period of service is not to ex tend beyond the termination of the civil war. Letters from Bayonne, of the 28th, announce the safe return of DON CARLOS to Estella. The recent victory of FLINTER over the Carlists at Toleda had greatly dispirited the partizans of the Pretender. In addition to the Grand Cross of Ferdinand, the QUEEN has conferred upon FLIN TER the rank of Major-General. The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Satur day have been received. Their contents continue unim portant. In fact, they do not contain a syllable of domes tic news of the slightest general interest. The J)urnal de Frankfort, of the 28th ult., announces that the King of HANOVER has annulled the elections of Deputies for Hanover, Gottingen, Lunenburg, Hildeshiem, Harburg, and Stade. The electors of the capital imme diately summoned a meeting, and resolved, with only one dissentient voice, that no other election should take place for the capital ; and it is supposed the other cities will fol bw the example thus set them. Who, after this, will in sult our ears, by ringing in them a rigmarole of sounds about CUMBERLAND'S German popularity ? The following are extracts from the Journals VXaN NA , Fn. 18.—From the private correspondence of the Constitutionnel.)—The Czar persist in his project of mar rying the Grand Duchess Olga to the Duke of Bordeaux, but the Duchess of Angouleme fears that this marriage will not be approved of by the French Legitimists. This is the only obstacle remaining to be overcome. The Emperor of Austria proposed a marriage between the Archduke and the Czar's eldest daughter ; the Czar would not agree to it, except on condition that the new Consort should be invested with the post of Lieutenant -General of Hungary. This answer was coolly received, because Prince Metternich sees in it the notion of separating Hungary from the empire. It is on the 30th of this month, that General Brossard is to appear before the court-martial sitting at Perpignan. The Moniteur of this morning has no official article.— Constitutionnel, March 3. FRONTIERS OF SPAIN.—_A letter from the frontiers of Na. varre, of 23th Feb., contains the following paragraph :—" On the 23d of this month all the English artillery were removed from St. Sebastian, to be placed on the heights and the lines of Ernani. Three companies of English Marines went to that town to remain there in garrison, the Spaniards, except ing the National Guards, which occupy that fort, having abandoned that point." " Six Carlist battalions of Guipuscoa and Alava, under the command of the Infant Don Sebastian, coming from Durango, arrived at Tolosse on the 23d. "On the same-day several pieces of artillery were expected from Onate, as well as ten other battalions of infantry, which it was said were to attempt the line of Ogazun.— Sentinelle des Pyrenees—Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Mena 3. Five per Cents., 109 f. 3 40c. 45c. Four per Cents., 104 f. 10411 25c. three per Cents., 79f. 50e. 55c. Bank Actions, 2,655 f. 2,652 f. SOc. 2,650 f. Bente de Naples, 99f. 2.0 c. 4, 0 c. SOc. Roman Five per Cents., 101% 3 A. Spanish Actives, 19;4%. Spanish Passives, 4. Belgian I.oan, Five per Cents, 104 IA. Belgian Bank, 1,5171. Hut= Loan, 390 f. 395 f. 113CC1ANOIL ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -e. ; money, 251. Mc Three months, paper, 251. 35c. ; money, 251. 35;7. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. Io9f. Three per Cents. 79f. 65c. Bank Actions; 2,6571. 50c. Romans, 102. Belgian Loan, 104!, • I Belgian Bank, 1,515 E Portuguese Three per Cents., 18. Haytian Loan, 390 f. Spanish Actives, 19%. DUTCH FUNDS.-AusTERDam, MARCH 1. Actual Debt, 2S, per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4k; per Cent., Do. do. 5 , 4 per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 179% New ditto BFLOI AN t UNDS-Bitesser.s, Maw:ft 3. Actual Debt, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 102% Loan of Thirty Millions 93% Loan of City, 1832, 4 p er C ent 99 ' Society of Commerce, 4!2per Cent 149 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 147 National Society . -Rrnssels Papers, March 3. AUSTRIAN FUN'I3SI.-VIENNA, FEB. 29. rive per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cexts. Three per Coats. Bank Shares -AllgemeineZeitung, Feb. 28. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Autwerp, of yeter_ day's date, bringing the Dutch Prices of the Ist of Marsh. Two-and-a- Half per cents, 531 ; Five per Cents, 101/ ; Spanish, 18{. Consols are becoming very heavy, and have again receded from 924 , to 92f 1, owing to a rumour of Ministers going out of office. As we have received the favourable and satisfactory intelligence on Saturday last by the Quebec from America, that the Canadies have been restored to tranquillity, the American papers in future will be of little importance, and are net much sought after, with the exception of the American merchants, who are anxious to :ascertain the local affairs of the United States, which are not at present in a a very prosperous state. Consols, which were very buoyant during the early part of Saturday, at 931 for the account, towards the close of the market experienced a decline of 3 per cent., and they left off at 93 for the account and money. Exchequer Bills, 65 prem. ; India Bonds, 63 prem. Consols opened this morning at the above prices, at present 9241 ; Spanish Active closed at 19i, with Coupons, opened al the same; Por tuguese closed at 27, opened at the same ; Brazilian 76, opened at the same ; Dutch 53i. Since the opening of the Conso. heavy at 994 I. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 V13 X 3 iper Cent...„.... „. Ditto Red New 314 per Cent lO O% see Ssi New 5 per Cent — &ink LongAnnuitiestoexpire Jan. 5, 1860 _ Oct. 10, 0459 — Jan. 5, ISBO l5 Jan. 5, 18S0 — April 5, 1881) — Jan. 5, 18741 — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account — Brazilian/B,nds .... . ..... Ditto Account 75 1iiN Buenos Ayres Bonds, — Ditto Account ......... Chiilian Bonds ...... ...... ....... Ditto Account . — Columbian Bands 27 14 Ditto Account ilttml"-- - market, the Consols hare remained S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock -- Ditto Bonds south Sea Sun k — Old Annuities .......... New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ --- Exch. Bills, .£1,060... ...... 61 64 om. Ditto .500.... . .. 61 64 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — pm Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... India Stock for Account 265 Consols for Account 93 2U% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds — Ditto Account ....... ....... Portuguese Molds - Ditto Account ..... ... .... Ditto New Bonds 2S% Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent. IS-li Prussian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 1822 llO Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spai C?L. Ibian Bonds, 1824 — anish Bond 4 — Ditto Account ' B%' Ditto Account ... Dinish Bonds . Ditto Account,,,,, .......... - —'Ditto Account 19%% Greek Bonds — French, 5 per c e nt. ......... —f. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 her cent. ....... ... —f. — c . Ditto Account . Mexican Bonds 3 per cent. i —e. , 5 ps - .1" cent __ __. Exchange f. —, Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. . 9 % 9 Ditto t'2 tto Account 5344 2 % % %Ditto Account ...... ........... ber cent 163 % Nea p olitan — Ditto, p Ditto Account lf3% 3 3 PRICES OF SHARES THI S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bristol and Exeter Railw a y C ompany Paid. 10 Per 10 Share. Dublin and Drogheda Rail way C ompany Eastern Counties Railway 3 3 '6''X , Great Western Railway Company 65 94 Brighton Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway Ditto Scrip 3 7 0 %% London and Southampton Railway Company 5O 44 London aid Southampton (New) Railway 5 27% 8 7 London Grand Junction Railway 5 3% Manchester and Leeds Railway Company Nl:a:cheater and Birmingham Railway 7 11 3 4 11 Northern and Eastern Railway Company North Midland Railway Company 35 43 York and North Midland Railway Company l2 13 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 3. 3 per Cent. Consols 92 3 ,4:Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 9134 Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent ... ........ ... 3% per Cent. Stock 99% Hibernian Bank 23 Ditto New, 1839 344 per Cent. Debentures - Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 28% cent HALF-PAST ONE O'CL6CK. We hear that a meeting takes place, at one o'clock this day, of the Ministers' friends, at the Home Office, to support them in the opposition to the motion of Sir William Molesworth, to be brought forward to morrow ; otherwise it is expected that the Ministry will be in a mind. rity of Three. This, no doubt, has been the cause of the receding of Consols this morning. There has been some bustle in the Consol Market in the course of the morning, owing to the report of Ministers going out of °Moe, In consequence of which the fluctuation in Consols have boon from 924 to 92* for the Account, at present 92i for Account. Some anxiety prevails to ascertain the result of the important motion to be brought forward to-morrow night in the House of Commons by Sir W. Molesworth. The prevailing opinion is that Ministers will be to a minority. Exchequer Bills, 61 64 prem.; India Bonds, 62 prem. In Use Foreign Market little doing. All South American Stocks arc lower. Spanish Active maintains its price of 191 with Coupons ; Dutch Two- Portuguese, 281 ; Three and-a-Half pe per Cents., 18r Cents., 521 f j, Brazilian, 75i ; M exican, 29; Shares continue the same as on Saturday, with the exception of Southampton, which has risen to 6 discount. A Dutch Loan has been made in Rolland of two to two and a half millions sterling. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 931 I. M. Robert, elder brother of the director of the Italian Opera at Paris, died two days ago of an attack of apoplexy brought on by the fright he received at the late con flagration of that theatre. He was 68 years of age. The debtor's Prison in the Ru• de Clichy, at Paris, esounded with universal bursts of laughter on Thursday morn - ing, occasioned by the involuntary arrival of a new tenant at tired in the complete costume of a Scottish chief, with the plaid and kilt, the purse and broad claymore, and of course the bare knee. It appeared that " Roderic Dhu" had been arres,ed for a• dirty sum of money at Paganini's ball, and brought direct by a hard-hearted bailiff to this rendezvous of more sombre aspect.— Galignani. We understand that there are already upwards of 26,000 signatures appended to the anti-Endowment petition. —Glasgow Chronicle, MARYLEBONE ELECTION. Ass TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,--On Saturday evening I took occasion to call your attention and that of the public to the apathy and indifference of which the Liberals of the Borough of St. Marylebone were guilty, in the recent contest which has so disgracefully termi nated. It will be my intention, in the short letter I now take the liberty of addressing to you, to make one or two remarks on the manner in which Lord Teignmeuth's Committee con ducted themselves, and to offer a caution to some of the electors of that influential borough which, if acted upon, will in all human probability, be productive of incalculable benefit to them : and not only to them, but to all who are actuated by that pure and noble principle—their country's love. It will be admitted on all hands, that the Committee of the Noble Lord worked day and night for the accomplishment of their object ; every elector, without one exception, was can vassed, and flattered, and every inducement that human in genuity could devise, or to which mortal tongue could have re course, held out in the solicitatioa of his vote. The greatest courtesy was paid to every elector before the polling com menced, and when a person presented himself at the booth, to tender his vote for his Lordship, several noblemen and gentle men who were in attendance addressed him thus :—" We beg to thank you most respectfully for your vote in favour of Lord Teignmouth." Now these things, all will readily acknow ledge, are mere clap -traps ; but they have great weight. We all know how readily we are captivated by any appearance of kindness and attention shown to ourselves, even if it is only ap pearance. To these shifts, so necessary during an election, the Liberals did not resort. Of the Tory party, in respect to the electors, they fell miserably short. One word of caution to the electors, more especially to those in the humbler walks of life. It is rumoured in the borough that some of the tax-gatherers were bribed not to press the poorer portion of the voters, until the expiration of the time allowed by the Act. Many not giving the subject a thought, did not inconvenience themselves in paying their taxes, until the Collector became troublesome. When the re port of an approaching election became prevalent, they turned their thoughts to the affair, and then they perceived how successfully they had been deceived. Ido not insinuate that such a course of conduct was adopted by the Noble Lord, or any one connected with him ; but any person who has common powers of discrcrimination, will clearly see that such might easily be the case, especially if the collector is favourably inclined to the Conservative candidate. Such being the cast, it becomes the bounden duty of the poorer electors to guard well their liberties against the crafty machi nations of their insidious foe. If they repose in imaginary se curity, and indulge in a mis-placed confidence, it is not, it cannot be, the fault of 'the Liberal party if all their privileges and all the comforts they now enjoy, and which they have fought so nobly and perseveringly to obtain, be now wrested from them. To each one of them I say, and I say respectfully, but boldly, " Think on these things." I am, Sir, your's, very respectfully, Monday Morning. H. J. P. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord CHANCELLOR, Lord DACRE, and Lord DE SAUMAREZ, at In the House of Lords today to hear Scotch Appeals. DUNLOP V. L•MBRIIT. The arguments in this part heard appeal were resumed, but had hot concluded when our Reporter left. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) PC/ULTRA V. *TOTEM). This bill was filed for the specific performance of an agreement, but during the opening of the pleadings the parties came to an arrangement that a decree should be made for a specific performance, on the follow ing terms :—The plaintiff to pay the defendant 2071., and defendant receiving rents up to Lady-day, 1838; the estate to be conveyed to plaintiff by defendant on payment of 207/. and the grant of the right of sporting on the estate to be made to the defendant and his nephew,—No costs on either side. • ALDLIISEY V. ALDERSET. The bill in this case was filed by Mr. Samuel Aldersey, against the representatives of a gentleman of the same name; and the object of it was to have a sum of 12,0001., bequeathed by the will of the defend ant's testator, applied according to the trusts of the will, in payirje certain debts charged on the estates of the plaintiff It appeared from the opening of Mr. PEMBERTON, who was counsel for the plaintiff; that in the year 1772, an estate at Aldersy, in Chester, was subject to certain mortgages to the amount of 4 ,7001., and subject to those mortgages. The Rev. Samuel Aldersey, of Aldersey, and Robert Aldersey, of the Inner Temple, London, the son of Samuel Aldersley, were seized of such estates. On the 28ah November, 1775, Samuel and Robert Aldersey executed a joint bond to secure the 5251. and interest, which was also a charge on the estate. Samuel Aldersey died in October, 1803, and Robert Aldersey died in November, 1802, without issue, whereupon Samuel Aldersey, the father of the plaintiff, became tenant for life in possession. He died in August, 1803, when the plaintiff became tenant for live In pos.ses sion of those estates. The bond for 5251., granted by Samuel and Robert, was paid off by the plaintiff and the mortgage for 4,700/., still remains a charge on the estate. The plaintiff has remained from 1803 to the present time in possession of these estates, as tenant tbr life. In the course of that time, lie was under the necessity of borrowing considerable suers, and a relative, Mr. Daniel Aldersey, who lived in Chester, who seems to have been a wealthy bachelor, regarding this gentleman as the head of his family, made many inquiries with re spect to the state of his circumstances, and the debts which it was sup posed he had contracted, and which were likely to affect his estates. tie was informed by the agent of the plaintiffthat the amount of his engage ments were not less than 12,0001. Mr. D. Aldersey expressed anxiety to , have them relieved, and on the 22d Jan., 1821, he made his will, thee object of which was, first, to provide for his two brothers, al so bachelors, and upon their death, without issue, then so to limit, e, estates, that 12,0001. of his personal estate should be applied i n .re lieving the present plaintiff from the incumbrances to whi,„th his estates were or might be subject. Daniel Aldersey died on the 26th January, 1821, and his representatives estimated the assets co pay the 120,00/. The testator's brother having di e d w i t h out issue, 'a te 1 2,000/, became applicable accordidg to the trust s o f th e will. It, appeared that solicitors in that part of the country acted AS money, scriveners, and clients placed money in their hands to be lent oat on their behalf. Messrs. Brook and Lee, who carry on business at. Whltchurch, appear to have been:the gentlemen through:whose clients the plaintifFborrowed a considerable sum of money— 8,6211. In 1822 Mr. Aldersley was desirous of borrowing a further sum of 1,1001., and application was made to Messrs. Brook and Lee for that purpose. But they 'mount alarmed at dot way in which Mr. Aldersey was going on, and thought they could n.c.O, safely permit the 8,625/. to remain any longer unsecured. The plain.. tiff agreed to charge that sum, together with the 1,5001. on his estates. and in April, 1822, deeds were executed for that purpose. Mr. BARBER and Mr. RICHARDS also appeared for the pb.intiii. Mr. TINNIT appeared for the infant heir, and had no objection ID the 4,7001. and 5251. being paid off. Mr. KINDERBLEY, for the representatives of Daniel Aldersey, the testator under whose will the question arose, submitted whether, under the circumstances of the case, there were any mortgages or encum brances on the estate to which the 12,0001. was applicable. The Learned Counsel contended, first, that the testator meant to discharge the encumbrances only that existed at the time of his death, and, secondly that supposing the debts were not so limited, then that the alleged mort gage or incumbrances were not such as came within the testator's meaning. Mr. PEMBERTON replied. Lord LANGDALE thought the debts came within the meaning oe the clauCe in the will, although as the debts amounted to more than 1'2,0001., there might be a considerable question raised between the rzmditors. His Lordship directed an inquiry as to who were the incumbra /leers, and ordered the 12,0001. to be paid into Court; the costs to be yaid out of the testator's assets. VICE-CHANCERY. -(THIS DAY.) nal(Woon v. num, &c. Mr. JACOB applied to the Court ex parte on behalf of the plaintiff, Mrs. Haywood, for a special injunction to restrain the defendants from ra» moving or selling certain ores got from mines in Cornwall without her permission. From the statements of the Learned Counsel, it appeared that the plaintiff was entitled to one-fourth o; a farm in Corn wall, under which the mines in question were. A per son of the name of Jones, who was entitled to one-fourth of the property, had devised his moiety to persons who constituted a Mining Company ilk Cornwall, who were now working the mines under the estP.te ; and the object of the present application was to restrain the disposing of the ore they obtained. His HONOUR granted the injunction. _• 1 Nel•••••••••••im. BOW-STREET.(THIS DAY.) A young man named George Winter was charged by Mary Pitzgerald, servant to Mrs. Burgess, 11, So uthampton.building s , with being found in her mistress's house for an unlawful purpose. It appeared from the evidence, that at twelve o'clock last night a violent knocking was heard at the hall door while the family was in the* kitchen, and on. opening the door, no person appeared outside. After• the witness had returned to the kitchen a noise was heard in the coaL cellar, but no notice was taken of it—it was supposed the cat was there. Witness went up to the parlour window, to satisfy herself no person had entered the house, and the prisoner was seen going ilea the coal cellar frcrn the area, having jumped down from the railing, a distance of eight. feet, a constable was instantly called in, and when the prisoner was taken into custody he pretended to be drunk. The complainant informed the Magistrate, that on the night previous,,, No. 7, in the same building had been robbed of some provisions from tlve pantry. The prisoner pleaded drunkenness, and was sent to hard labour for six weeks, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CNESTER TRADE Cur. 6 to I agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime —taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley—taken 9 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan 9 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth 10 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Mersey—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Clarke's Magician 13 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab 15 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lord F;tafford—takett 16 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Par olles 17 to 1 agst Captain Lamb% Chit Chat 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ilouldsrorth'B Combat 20 to 1 agst Mr. T. Walters's King Cole N to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catherina 20 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Galewoutl 25 to 1 against and other. COURSING. The Asbdov.n Park Meeting finished on Friday, when the Cup was won b; Mr. Etwall's Erne Nymph ; the Cr even Stakes ( Ist class) by nlr. Neeld's Never Better; the 2d. el ass of the Craven Stakes by Mr. Cripps's Cressida ; •the Wey'. an Stakes (let class) by Mr. Etw a ll' s E gg Sauce ; the 2d class of the Weyland Stakes by Mr. Neeld's Nosegay ; and the Lambos rn Stakes by Mr. Neeld's Neither. PE DESTRIA.ffiSM. West, the pedestrian, who some. few weeks since walked Tor a wager, forty miles in eight hours, the half of this distance backwards, has undertaken to perform the same task to-day. It appears there was some dispute between his backers; and those who betted against him upon the lust occasion, and he agreed to walk the match again. He started from the Duke of Clare nce k ept by Britton, at the foot of Notting-hill, this morning at nine o'clock. The bets are in his favour. A library is advertised in a provinr z i a l paper,. to be sold wholesale, consisting of "several square feet of :hand somely-bound bcoks, which are as good ax new, never fp aving been used. I I